I read balance sheets for a living, and the rock business keeps handing me the same case over and over. A band makes a record. The record becomes a legend. And somewhere between those two facts, a contract gets signed that nobody in the band fully understood, and twenty or forty years later, a lawyer somewhere is still cutting checks to people who never played a note.

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What’s Inside

• The Satisfaction Nobody Owns
• The Man Who Owned Creedence
• The Rumours Payroll
• The Managers Who Took Their Cut First
• The Catalog That Changed Hands Three Times
• Four Ledgers From the Same Band
• The Album Frozen in Litigation
• Who Gets to Be the Band
• The Hotel With No Exit Clause
• The Sale That Priced the Crown